Speaker 1: Frog Prince by the brother Grimm. One fine evening, a
Speaker 1: young princess put in her bonnet clogs and went out
Speaker 1: to take a walk by herself in a wood. And
Speaker 1: when she came to a cool spring of water, she
Speaker 1: rose in the midst of it. She sat herself down
Speaker 1: to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball
Speaker 1: in her hand, which was her favorite blathing, and she
Speaker 1: was always tossing it up into the air and catching
Speaker 1: it again as it foiled. After a time, she threw
Speaker 1: it up so high that she missed catching it as
Speaker 1: it fell, and the ball bound it away and rolled
Speaker 1: along upon the ground till at last it fell down
Speaker 1: into the spring. The princess looked into the spring after
Speaker 1: her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that
Speaker 1: she could not see the bottom of it. Then she
Speaker 1: began to prevail her loss and said, Alas, if I
Speaker 1: could only get my ball again, I would give all
Speaker 1: my fine clothes and jewels and everything I have, everything
Speaker 1: I have in the world. While she was speaking, a
Speaker 1: frog puts its head out of the water and said, Princess,
Speaker 1: why do you weep so bitterly? Alas, said she, What
Speaker 1: can you do for me, your nasty frog? My golden
Speaker 1: ball has fallen into the spring. The frog said, I
Speaker 1: want not your pearls and jewels and fine clothes. But
Speaker 1: if you will love me and let me live with you,
Speaker 1: and eat from of your golden plate and sleep upon
Speaker 1: your bed, I will bring your ball again. What nonsense,
Speaker 1: thought the princess. This is a city frog is talking.
Speaker 1: He can never even get out of the spring to
Speaker 1: visit me, though he may be able to get my
Speaker 1: ball for me, And therefore I will tell tell him
Speaker 1: he shall have what he asks. So she said to
Speaker 1: the frog, well, if you will bring me my ball,
Speaker 1: I will do all you ask. Then the frog put
Speaker 1: his head down and dived deep under the water, and
Speaker 1: after a little time he came up again with a
Speaker 1: ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge
Speaker 1: of the spring. As soon as the young princess saw
Speaker 1: her ball, she ran to pick it up. And she
Speaker 1: was so overjoyed to have it in her hand and
Speaker 1: again that she never thought of the frog, but ran
Speaker 1: home with it as fast as she could. The frog
Speaker 1: called after her, stay, princess, and take me with you,
Speaker 1: as you said, but she did not stop to hear
Speaker 1: a word. The next day, just as the princess had
Speaker 1: sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise, tap tap, splash, splash,
Speaker 1: as if something was coming up their marble staircase. And
Speaker 1: soon after there was a gentle knock at the door,
Speaker 1: and a little voice cried out and said, open the door,
Speaker 1: my princess dear, opened the door, thy true love here,
Speaker 1: and mind the words that thou and I said by
Speaker 1: the fountain cool in the greenwood shed. Then the princess
Speaker 1: ran to the door and opened it, and there she
Speaker 1: saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight,
Speaker 1: she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast
Speaker 1: as she could, came back to her seat. The King,
Speaker 1: her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her
Speaker 1: what was the matter. There's a nasty frog, said she
Speaker 1: at the door that lifted my ball from me out
Speaker 1: of the spring. This morning. I told him that he
Speaker 1: should live with me here, thinking that he could never
Speaker 1: get out of the spring. But there he is at
Speaker 1: the door, and he wants to come in. Where she
Speaker 1: was speaking, the frog knocked again at the door and said,
Speaker 1: open the door, My Princess dear, opened the door to
Speaker 1: thy true love here and mind the words that thou
Speaker 1: and I said by the fountain cool in the green
Speaker 1: wood shed. Then the king said to the young princess,
Speaker 1: as you have given your word, you must keep it,
Speaker 1: so go and let him in. She did so, and
Speaker 1: the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on,
Speaker 1: tap tap, splash, splash, from the bottom of the room
Speaker 1: to the top, till he came up close to the table,
Speaker 1: where the princess said, pray, lift me upon chair, said
Speaker 1: he to the princess, and let me sit next to you.
Speaker 1: As soon as she had done this, the frog said,
Speaker 1: put your blade nearer to me that I may eat
Speaker 1: of it. This she did, and when he had eaten
Speaker 1: his much as he could, he said, now I am tired.
Speaker 1: Carry me upstairs and put me into your bed. And
Speaker 1: the princess, thought very unwillingly, took him up in her
Speaker 1: hand and put him upon the pillow of her own bed,
Speaker 1: where he slept all night long. As soon as it
Speaker 1: was light, he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out
Speaker 1: of the house. Now then, thought the princess, at last
Speaker 1: he's gone, and I shall be troubled with him no more.
Speaker 1: But she was mistaken, for when night came again, she
Speaker 1: heard the same tapping at the door, and the frog
Speaker 1: came once more and said, open the door, My princes dear,
Speaker 1: opened the door to thy true love. Here, and mind
Speaker 1: the words that thou and I said by the fountain
Speaker 1: cooling the green wood shed. And when the princess opened
Speaker 1: the door, the frog came in and slept upon her
Speaker 1: pillow as before till the morning broke. And the third
Speaker 1: night he did the same. But when the princess awoke
Speaker 1: on the following morning, she was astonished to see, instead
Speaker 1: of the frog, a handsome prince gazing on her with
Speaker 1: the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing
Speaker 1: at the head of a bread. He told her that
Speaker 1: he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy who had
Speaker 1: changed him into a frog, and that he had been faded,
Speaker 1: so to abide till some princes should take him out
Speaker 1: of the spring and let him eat from her blade
Speaker 1: and sleep upon her bed for three nights. You said,
Speaker 1: the prince have broken this cruel charm, and now I
Speaker 1: have nothing to wish for but that you should go
Speaker 1: with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry
Speaker 1: you and love you as long as you live. The
Speaker 1: young princess, you may be sure, was not long in
Speaker 1: sale saying yes to all this. And as they spoke,
Speaker 1: a gay coach drove up with eight beautiful horses and
Speaker 1: decked with the plums of feathers and a golden harness.
Speaker 1: And behind the coach wrote the Prince's servant, faithful Heinrich,
Speaker 1: who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear masters during
Speaker 1: his enchantment, so long and so bitterly that his heart
Speaker 1: had well night bursts. They then took leave of the
Speaker 1: king and got into the coach with eight horses, and
Speaker 1: all set out full of joy and merriment for the
Speaker 1: Prince's kingdom, which they reached safely, and there they lived
Speaker 1: happily a great many years. The end